Description

Tāone Tupa Ora suggests answers to these important questions, bringing together perspectives on a broad range of urban issues, from Māori development to architecture, town planning to strategic growth management. It collects stories of iwi experiences in the 21st century, and suggests principles and theories on which to base change.

About the author

Keriata Stuart (Te Atiawa ki Waiwhetū, Taranaki) is an independent Māori public health policiy advisor and researcher, and also works as a strategic advisor on Māori public health for the New Zealand Public Health Association/Kāhui Hauora Tūmatanui. Keriata completed her Master of Public Health degree in 2009. Her research interests include Māori environmental health and iwi/hapū development, and increasing Māori participation in developing community and national public policy.

Michelle Thompson-Fawcett (Ngāti Whātua) is Ahorangi Tuarua, Te Ihowhenua (Geography Department), Te Whare Wānanga o Otago. She has planning degrees from the University of Auckland and a doctorate from the University of Oxford. Her research interests focus on the inclusionary and exclusionary practices surrounding planning for the future at the local level. In particular, she has concentrated on analysing the processes of urban design, urban regeneration, urban growth management and indigenous resource management.